
Without getting into spoilers for its first, now-only, season finale, the first ten episodes were intended as a prelude to a whole different type of show.

While our reviews were mostly positive, audiences were apparently not hungry enough to support the show on a level to justify another season of its vampiric virals hungry for human blood. Consequently, the writing was already on the wall. However, its 10-episode season ended on a low, with a two-part finale on March 11 only managing to attract – in the same metrics – a 0.7 rating and a total of 3.122 million viewers. The series, which launched on January 12, came out of the gate nabbing a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, with 5.218 million viewers in Live+same day. With the timeline of the show’s source material spanning centuries, The Passage season 2 seemed like an absolute necessity in order to do justice to Justin Cronin’s apocalyptic novels. – Sorry, fans, we’re not sugarcoating it. Very tall he was, and his beard was long, and he was grey and old, save that his eyes were keen as stars.The Passage has been canceled by Fox. The passage reads, “As they came to the gates Círdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. He greets the company of elves that includes Galadriel and Elrond as they board a ship to depart Middle-earth at the end of the series.


To purchase prints of TIME’s The Rings of Power cover, visit the TIME Cover Storeīut Círdan only appears in person once in The Lord of the Rings proper. Along with Elrond, he urges Isildur to destroy the one ring after the battle at the steps of Mount Doom and thus plays a pivotal role not only in the story of the Second Age, but in setting up the events of the The Lord of the Rings in the Third Age. The elf fights against Sauron alongside the elf king Gil-galad. Whether any other elves can or do grow beards is a subject of much debate among Tolkien scholars and superfans.Ĭírdan is mentioned several times in Tolkien lore. Círdan is the only elf Tolkien describes as having a beard in the text of The Lord of the Rings.
